Re: [PATCH] panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP

Josh Hunt
2014-06-23T22:55:04Z

On 06/23/2014 05:11 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 22:12:35 -0400 Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> wrote:
>
>> This taint flag will be set if the system has ever entered a softlockup
>> state. Similar to TAINT_WARN it is useful to know whether or not the system
>> has been in a softlockup state when debugging.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart watchdog_timer_fn(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
>>
>> if (softlockup_panic)
>> panic("softlockup: hung tasks");
>> + add_taint(TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
>> __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, true);
>> } else
>> __this_cpu_write(soft_watchdog_warn, false);
>
> Would make more sense to have applied the taint *before* calling
> panic()?

Andrew

Yep, that's a good call. Thanks. Do you want me to send a v2 or did you
take care of it?

In addition to adding the softlockup taint flag, do you think it'd be
reasonable to add another flag for page allocation failures? I think
it'd be nice to be able to account for these conditions somehow without
having to parse dmesg, etc. As with the softlockup flag, it's helpful to
know if your system had encountered a page allocation failure at some
point before the crash or whatever you're debugging.

Thanks
Josh